Victor Leal, our colleague from Gautemala and our Area Representative for the Spanish speaking Americas has passed away.
VICTOR LEAL ESTIVEZ Born in Guatemala, he was a free lance tourist guide since 1978. At the end of his regular High School, he began tourism studies at Guatemala private school for Tourist Guides getting a degree in 1977. In 1978 he began studies to become professional tourist guide at the Technical Institute for Capacity […]
CEN Meeting on International Tourist Guide Day in Cyprus
European Standardisation Committee (CEN) Photos in Cyprus Tourist Guides of 10 European countries celebrated the 21st February 2006 in Cyprus by having the meeting of the European Standardisation Committee (CEN) for the standardisation of “Tourist Guide Services”.
International Tourist Guide Day in Rhodos island-Greece
On the occasion of celebrating the International Tourist Guide Day, the tourist guides of the Association of Dodecanese based in Rhodes, presented a new DVD about Rhodes island, in the presence of the head of Prefecture of Dodecanese, Mr. Mahairidis, the mayor of Rhodes, Mr. Giannopoulos and many other officials. The DVD was created by […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Dubai
The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) joined the world in celebrating the International Tour Guides Day. The Training Solution department organized a reception at the Nad Al Sheba Club House to recognize and honour the work of experienced and dedicated professional tour guides on the occasion. All tour guides who received special […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Toronto
The Canadian Tour Guide Association of Toronto organized a free tour of downtown Toronto to celebrate International Tourist Guide Day on Tuesday, March 21, 2006.
We lost former WFTGA Secretary: Margrit Klimscha
Margrit Klimscha (May 15, 1927 – July 31, 2005) Margrit Klimscha was a founding member of the Vienna Guide service in 1975. Within the Vienna Chamber of Commerce she fought relentlessly for the professional interests of tourist guides. In 1985 she represented Austria at the first Convention of WFTGA in Israel and put her expertise […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Austria
The tourist guides in Wien offered three different walking tours (Mozart and the musical tradition in Vienna) for to celebrate International Tourist Guide Day. They had 610 visitors. Besides the guides had about 70 blind people for the special program (guided tour in the Furniture Museum). TV, Radio and some newspapers mentioned the guides too.
Serbia on International Tourist Guide Day 2005
We are glad to inform you that our Association (UTVS) has successfully organized and executed the following manifestations in order to mark (for the third time) the International Tourist Guide Day (ITGD 2005): February 18-21 – Exhibition of Photographs – “The Tourist Guide – in front of and behind the camera” 85 selected photographs were […]
Royal Recognition
Wednesday – February 11, 2004 – Tom Hooper, FEG’s ExCo Member is honoured by Queen Elizabeth II, with an MBE (Member of the British Empire). Tom has played a key role through the foundation of tourist guiding institute in the UK. He was working in conjunction as joint President with Fiona Grant and the Palace […]
Draft CEN Standard for the Training and Qualification of Tourist Guides
EN 13809 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDISATION (CEN) The final meeting of WG5 the European committee working to create the above standard took place in Athens on 26th & 27th April 2007. Tourist Guide experts for the various countries attending included Rosalind Newlands (WFTGA President) and Tom Hooper (FEG Chairman) UK; Efi Kalamboukidou Greece; […]
WFTGA and GREEN GLOBE
The Executive Board and its representatives attend trade fairs, present papers at conferences and conventions, lobby government departments to promote the cause of professional guides, and seek co-operation with other stakeholders in the tourism industry. Recently, WFTGA and GREEN GLOBE 21 have signed a cooperation agreement to affirm the goal of achieving sustainable tourism worldwide. […]
Announces new regulations for using licensed guides
CONSUMER AFFAIRS ANNOUNCES OUT-OF-TOWN TOUR COMPANIES NOW REQUIRED TO USE ONLY LICENSED TOUR GUIDES DCA to List All Licensed Tour Guides Online, Giving Special Recognition to Guides with Exemplary Scores on New Licensing Exam New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra and City Councilman and Consumer Affairs CommitteeChairman Philip Reed, today […]
Tour Escorts to get $14 Million in settlement of overtime and retirement plan claims
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco law firm of Dacey & Sitkin today announced a major class action settlement in excess of $14 million compensating approximately 200 tour escorts for unpaid overtime under federal and California law and approximately 370 tour escorts for not being included in the retirement plans of the defendant Group Voyagers, […]
Yossi Grau’s Grave
Weird and wonderful complaints by tourists – Daily Mail
Turkish Colleagues have launched a new magazine: Crossroads
In order to increase the image of tourist guides we had decided to publish a very prestigious magazine. It is out now. Its name is Crossroads. It is a bilingual magazine (English and Turkish). It consists of 100 pages, high quality material, photos etc. The circulation is 30.000 copies. We mostly deliver it free of […]
UNITED KINGDOM – Institute for Tourist Guiding launched
The Department of Trade and Industry, with the support of the Department of Culture, the English Tourism Council and the Wales Tourist Board has given its final approval for the establishment of the Institute of Tourist Guiding. The establishment of the Institute is considered by many inside and outside the profession to be the most […]
UGANDA – Successful Bird Guide Training
For many years, Uganda has suffered from the lack of recognised trained Bird Guides. This made Uganda an unpopular destination to many who would be interested in Birding. The Uganda Bird Guides Club, together with Nature Uganda and Uganda Breweries Ltd. Has been working on overcoming this long-time problem. It all started in 2001, when […]
New York City Officials taking interests in the quality of tourists guide!
Consumer Rights of Tourists at the International Level and the Role of Tourist Guides – By John J Downes
EMITT/TUREB Congress at TUYAP Exhibition Center 4 April 2003 Consumer Rights of Tourists at the International Level and the Role of Tourist Guides By John J Downes Reader in International Travel Law, University of Abertay Dundee President of IFTTA Introduction “Ay, now I am in Arden; the more fool I. When I was at home […]
WFTGA 1985-2007…. 22 Years of Excellence
Dear Colleagues Worldwide, Travel and Tourism Industry Partners, We would like to introduce the new Executive Board of the WFTGA whom you will be hearing quite a bit from in the coming years. WFTGA 1985-2007…. 22 Years of Excellence At the 12th WFTGA Convention in Cairo the following EXBO was elected: President Rosalind Newlands […]
ARGENTINA – Happy Hour brings together stakeholders
AGUITBA, the Tourist Guide Association of Buenos Aires, recently organised a Happy Hour for members of the tourism industry. For the first time in the history of the Association, this event brought together not only the guides but also other stakeholders in tourism, such as agencies, the representatives of the National Tourist Board as well […]
9TH WFTGA CONVENTION IN SCOTLAND 2003
The Convention was a big success and congratulations are due to all the members of STGA who worked long and hard and came up with so many wonderful ideas. The final dinner at Stirling Castle was a truly inspiring occasion and much appreciated by all participants. We should particularly thank Ros Newlands and her committee, […]
National workshop in Indonesia
On October 4-6, the Indonesian Tourist Guide Association arranged its 6th National Workshop, which was attended by 150 members from all over Indonesia. They discussed about the standards of competence of tourist guides, and the program and courses in 2004. KC Tan, the former president of Tourist Guides Association of Singapore, attended the workshop and […]
